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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier. Got a minute?
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2 .The California state senate recently passed a bill to offer driver's licenses embedded with radio-frequency ID chips.
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3 .It would have made California the first state bordering Mexico to offer so-called Enhanced Driver's Licenses, EDLs.
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4 .But the state's Assembly Appropriations Committee shelved those plans.
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5 .EDLs let you rapidly re-enter the U.S.at a land border without needing a passport.
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6 .They're already available in Michigan, New York, Vermont and Washington.
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7 .The California committee ostensibly put its EDL plan on ice because they didn't want to pay a few million dollars a year for it.
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8 .Legislators favoring EDLs said they would alleviate border congestion,
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9 .which a US-Mexico chamber of commerce member says "has reached intolerable and inhumane levels."
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10 .Opponents objected to giving the government yet another way to track our movements.
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11 .The RFID chip can be read dozens of feet away without an individual's knowledge or consent, according to the ACLU.
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12 .It's another case of technology being used to offer people a tradeoff between privacy and convenience.
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13 .One thing California's EDL plan had going for it: at least it would have been voluntary.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier.
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